Outdoor Leadership, Second Edition, is the definitive text for developing student leadership in outdoor and adventure settings throughout the world. Crafted by an internationally renowned author team, it grounds students in eight core competencies essential to outdoor and adventure leadership. Through the text, activities, and exercises, students will demonstrate leadership competencies, develop professional portfolios, and prepare to be successful leaders.
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Outdoor Leadership, Second Edition, is the definitive text for developing student leadership in outdoor and adventure settings throughout the world. Crafted by an internationally renowned author team, it grounds students in eight core competencies essential to outdoor and adventure leadership. Through the text, activities, and exercises, students will demonstrate leadership competencies, develop professional portfolios, and prepare to be successful leaders.
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Learn to make healthy eating choices and break through the barriers that keep you from eating right. Healthy Eating Every Day offers a step-by-step, sustainable, behavior-changing approach to eating for improved health. Updated content aligns with the current U.S. dietary guidelines and MyPlate tools. In Healthy Eating Every Day, you’ll discover how to choose the right balance of foods, set realistic goals and rewards, cope with triggers for unhealthy eating, and much more.
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Physical Literacy on the Move will help you guide your students toward physical literacy. The book offers 120 games and activities that are suitable for a variety of settings and are broken into four progressive levels. You can adapt each game to make it harder or easier as you optimize the level of challenge to make the game both instructive and fun. The student-centered games are perfect for laying the foundation for students to develop their physical literacy.
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See high intensity training in an entirely new light. You’ll find 40 exercises, each detailed and depicted with art, photos, and modifications; 127 workouts and circuits to mix things up; warm-up, safety, and injury prevention recommendations; and—if you’re up to the challenge—an original 15-week program.
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See high intensity training in an entirely new light. You’ll find 40 exercises, each detailed and depicted with art, photos, and modifications; 127 workouts and circuits to mix things up; warm-up, safety, and injury prevention recommendations; and—if you’re up to the challenge—an original 15-week program.
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Physical Literacy on the Move will help you guide your students toward physical literacy. The book offers 120 games and activities that are suitable for a variety of settings and are broken into four progressive levels. You can adapt each game to make it harder or easier as you optimize the level of challenge to make the game both instructive and fun. The student-centered games are perfect for laying the foundation for students to develop their physical literacy.
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Learn to make healthy eating choices and break through the barriers that keep you from eating right. Healthy Eating Every Day offers a step-by-step, sustainable, behavior-changing approach to eating for improved health. Updated content aligns with the current U.S. dietary guidelines and MyPlate tools. In Healthy Eating Every Day, you’ll discover how to choose the right balance of foods, set realistic goals and rewards, cope with triggers for unhealthy eating, and much more.
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This book features 176 drills designed to systematically improve the skills of a competitive swimmer—whether a beginner or a national-level athlete. In addition to covering all four competitive strokes—freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly—chapters on body position, sculling, starts, turns, and finishes are included. New chapters feature poolside strength band workouts and, especially of interest to triathletes, open-water drills.
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A practical guide for identifying and incorporating yoga movements into a new or existing routine. Awareness exercises and proven poses and techniques help you create a personalized practice for better health and performance.
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A practical guide for identifying and incorporating yoga movements into a new or existing routine. Awareness exercises and proven poses and techniques help you create a personalized practice for better health and performance.
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This book debunks common fads, myths, and misconceptions and covers many aspects of fitness and health—primarily exercise (aerobic, resistance training, and flexibility), functional fitness, and nutrition. Get the latest research, sound advice, and age-specific recommendations for lifelong fitness and health.
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This book debunks common fads, myths, and misconceptions and covers many aspects of fitness and health—primarily exercise (aerobic, resistance training, and flexibility), functional fitness, and nutrition. Get the latest research, sound advice, and age-specific recommendations for lifelong fitness and health.
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This book features 176 drills designed to systematically improve the skills of a competitive swimmer—whether a beginner or a national-level athlete. In addition to covering all four competitive strokes—freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly—chapters on body position, sculling, starts, turns, and finishes are included. New chapters feature poolside strength band workouts and, especially of interest to triathletes, open-water drills.
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Building Character, Community, and a Growth Mindset in Physical Education offers more than 60 large-group warm-up activities, character-building activities, and team-building challenges. The text, which comes with a web resource, will help you build a positive learning environment, teach valuable life skills and core values, and inspire and create positive change in your students. In doing so, you will help you prepare students for success in college and beyond.
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Building Character, Community, and a Growth Mindset in Physical Education offers more than 60 large-group warm-up activities, character-building activities, and team-building challenges. The text, which comes with a web resource, will help you build a positive learning environment, teach valuable life skills and core values, and inspire and create positive change in your students. In doing so, you will help you prepare students for success in college and beyond.
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Dancer Wellness, coedited by Virginia Wilmerding and Donna Krasnow and a collaborativbe project with the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, offers guidance on the foundations, mental components, and physical aspects of dancer wellness. Readers can use this comprehensive, all-in-one guide to enhance and complement their daily training, learn strategies to develop as a dancer, understand their capabilities, and create their own personalized dancer wellness plan. The text
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This instructional text equips health care providers with the information they need to develop a framework for decision making when working with injured and recovering athletes and active populations.
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This instructional text equips health care providers with the information they need to develop a framework for decision making when working with injured and recovering athletes and active populations.
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This text provides practitioners with the information needed in order to oversee an athlete monitoring system and to collect, analyze, and interpret monitoring data so that training programs can be adjusted to achieve optimal athlete preparation and performance.
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This text provides practitioners with the information needed in order to oversee an athlete monitoring system and to collect, analyze, and interpret monitoring data so that training programs can be adjusted to achieve optimal athlete preparation and performance.
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SHAPE America’s Lesson Planning for Middle School Physical Education provides lesson plans to help your students meet the National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education, thereby becoming physically literate individuals. The text offers lesson plans from experienced middle school physical educators that reflect best practices in instruction, integrate appropriate assessments, and enhance teacher effectiveness. With this text, you can put your students on the path to
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